‘Jarttijiti" is how Martu people pronounce ‘33’, the colloquial name for the Kunawarritji community where Nora lived and painted.. Kunawarritji is an important site in the Great Sandy Desert where mullitple stories and histories intersect. Originally an important spring water, at the turn of the 20th Century Kunawarritji became a well (number 33) along the Canning Stock Route. Each year throughout the 1930-50s, the well became a site of contact between the drovers, their cattle and desert families such as Nora's long before colonial history entered this country, other stories dominated this site. In the Jukurrpa

(Dreaming) the Minyipuru (Seven Sisters) stopped here and shaped a number of landforms before continuing on their epic journey east across the desert. Today, Kunawarritji is a site of return, a place where people have come back to continue making their life in the desert. Nora continued to live at and look after Jartjitji untel shortly before her passing in 2017, painting it and the many other lifegiving waterholes of her country further south along the stock route.‘